Advanced Service Menu Region Greyed Out

[ryn0909]

i have a un46h6201 and ive managed to make my way into the ADVANCED service menu. It allows "local Set", "sw model" and "BOM Model" to be changed, along with a million other settings as well.

"local set" has only 5 options to choose from: None, US, SD Mexico, SD Canada and Carribe.

"SW Model" has 10 options to choose from: None, UH4304, UH5203, UH5303, UH6203, UH4203, UH4500, UH4250, UH6103 and UH5103

HOWEVER the setting for "Region" is still greyed out. In STANDARD service mode, it doesnt appear in the list. Im guessing theres got to be some kind of key sequence to input via remote? in order to change the "Region" setting.

Does anyone know how to get the region setting to be modified? Im attempting to enable PVR and im sure it requires the region to be changed

[zoelechat]

Maybe Samsung greyed out region setting as well as OTN from now on... Who knows?

[ryn0909]

hmmm, idk.... i do know that this tv has the same firmware on it, rite now as it did, the day it was made.

[nsteiner]

I have the exact same problem.
My model is UN40H5203AF

Does someone know how to solve this ?

Thanks

[ryn0909]

ok well to update anyone who reads this, there has been some changes in ADVANCED service menu allowable options. Because i wasnt careful enough playing around in advanced service menu, i ended up bricking my tv. thank god it was under warranty. So after the tv was repaired, by installing new main board, i noticed the firmware version was different than what was on the original board. my original board had version 1112.1 and the new board has version 1123.1 although version 1123.1 is not the most current version available, there were some noticeable changes within ADVANCED service menu. they are listed below....

option-->mrt option--> OTN Support is now greyed out. fw ver: 1112.1 was NOT greyed out

option-->local set--> KOR was added to the exsisting list

option-->mrt option--> Region---> is no longer greyed out and has only 2 choices available (USA,KOR)

option-->mrt option-->language_arabic--> is no longer greyed out and has 24 choices available (US, KR, MALAYSIA,WEST ASIA, N_AFRICA, AFRICA, TAIWAN, S_AMERICA, MIDDLE_ASIA, ISRAEL, IRAN, EAST_ASIA, UNKNOWN, CIS, TURKEY, CHINA, HONG_KONG, JAPAN, CANADA, PHILIPINE, EU, AUSTRALIA, CAUCASUS, CANTRAL_ASIA)

im sure there are other changes that were made, im only pointing out the most relevant ones pertaining to this thread topic. Also if anyone happens to know the EXACT description and function of the advanced service menu options, please share the wealth. im not looking for guesses, bcuz thats what leads to bricked tvs.